Dreams Quote by Miguel de Unamuno

“Religion is the opium of the people!”

— John Fante

“Religion is opium for the masses”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy.”

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez «Marino»

“Religion is the opium of the poor." "I thought marijuana was the opium of the poor.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.”

— Regis Debray

“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.”

— Tom Robbins

“Opium resembles religion insofar as a magician resembles Jesus.”

— Jean Cocteau

“Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.”

— Jonathan Swift

“If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“And the least stupid, fleeing the herd where fate has penned them fast, take refuge in the wards of opium, so much for what…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Do you remember what Karl Marx said? He would have been proud of Sam Harris's metaphysical moorings on religion, for he tried the same…

— Ravi Zacharias

“Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole…

— Ernst Bloch